New games bring out the geek in IC training
Infection Control Weekly Monitor, April 28, 2010
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If you’re having difficulty training your younger demographic about infection prevention, perhaps it’s time to turn to a card game for help.
Two physicians, Dr. Arun Mathews and Dr. Francis Kong, are founders of Nerdcore Learning which recently launched “The Healing Blade.” The role-playing card game similar to popular games like “Pokemon,” “Yu-Gi-Oh,” or “Magic: The Gathering,” combines infection control and gaming, according to American Medical News.
In March, the two doctors ended up selling more than 90 copies of the game at the American Medical Student Association’s annual meeting in Anaheim, CA.
“That type of approach should be taken towards education, where if you want to sit down and learn about all the glorious things that occur in microbiology, you should be able to do that on many different levels,” Mathews told American Medical News.
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